An Act to amend the law of Scotland in respect of certain leases, other contracts and obligations; certain courts and their powers; evidence and procedure; certain criminal penalties; the care of children; the functions of the Commissioner for Local Administration; solicitors; and certain procedures relating to crofting and the valuation of sheep stocks; and to make, as respects Scotland, certain other miscellaneous reforms of the law.
[30th October 1985]
X1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
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X1The text of ss. 8–11, 59(1), 60, Sch. 2 paras. 21, 22 was taken from S.I.F Group 30 (Contract); ss. 12, 14, 17–23, 33, 34, 47, 58–60, Sch. 2 paras. 1–15, Sch. 4 from S.I.F. Group 36:1 (Courts, Scotland: Court of Session); ss. 35–46, 49, 51–54, 59(1), 60, Sch. 2 paras. 16–20, 23–27, 32, Sch. 3 from S.I.F. Group 39:1 (Criminal Law: General); ss. 15, 60 from S.I.F. Group 47 (Evidence); ss. 13, 16, 24–29, 59(1), 60, Sch. 2 para. 31 from S.I.F. Group 49:6 (Family Law: Family Property, Scotland); ss. 48, 55, 58, 60 from S.I.F. Group 57 (Government Departments and Public Offices); 1–7, 30–32, 59(1), 60, Sch. 2 paras. 28–30 from S.I.F. Group 75:2 (Landlord and Tenant: General, Scotland); ss. 56, 60, Sch. 1 from S.I.F. Group 76:2 (Lawyers and Notaries: Scotland); ss. 57, 58, 60 from S.I.F. Group 89 (Parliament); ss. 50, 60 from S.I.F.Group 105 (Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages).
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